Peter Alfandary discusses the myth of globalization in Tedtalk.

Alfandary starts off his presentation on a

personal note talking about himself and his attraction with cultural differences.  He presents a case as to
why there is a need to learn about other cultures. He notes that there is a tendency for people to
assume because they share a common language or live in the same part of the world that they
understand each other’s cultures. However, he shows how misplaced this belief is by proving that
people may live and shared experience in global context. He considers the “Global Village” as a myth
because we are living in a village that convincing media environment and it connects with the social
world today.  He also considered that something different has happened, become invisible, hidden
behind technology because learning experience we would have received is missing. He also emphasizes
in there’s no one single village, rather there are lot of villages with different cultures, emotions and ways
to communicate as long as we apply the cultural intelligence into our common lives, we may increase
the tolerance and understand the things by a different perspective. He passionately believes that the
need for cultural intelligence is increasingly critical as we move towards greater in globalization. The
cultural intelligence that Peter Alfandary talks about in the video, is not easy to learn, teach and apply.
Because, our brain is almost fully developed at our twenties, and the later we have to adapt to a
different culture, the harder will be to develop that cultural intelligence we are looking for.